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Repeat After Me	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 8880 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Hey all. I wasn’t going to say this because it is very personal, but I think you all need to know. With a heavy heart, I want to let you know that my mom lost her battle with cancer and passed away on Monday, July 15^th. We held her funeral on Thursday and ever since I have been feeling empty. Writing this story has helped me stay distracted but I want to apologize to each and every one of you if I don’t post a chapter on time. It’s touch and go at the moment, however I will do my best to stay up to date with this story. It helps to know that you all love this story so much and that I have something to look forward to at the end of the week. All I ask is that you stay patient with me as I go through this difficult time. I am posting chapter 7 early for my mom. She was a very creative person and always inspired her 7 children to reach for the impossible. Chapter 8 should still be posted on time but in case it’s not, I am truly sorry. I do plan to continue Repeat after Me, until it is finished and I promise I will not abandon this story or slack on the writing. My beta and I are also working on another Time Travel story called The Paths We Take, a multi-era story. I was going to wait until much later to announce it, once I had more chapters done, but I wanted to let you all know that I am not giving up on writing; just taking my time. The story will have strong content and a warning for various concepts such as racism, classism, sexism, and language, but it is necessary for the time period. It will be a while before it is released and I will to do another announcement with the posting date in the coming weeks. So stay tuned and please raise your wands up for my mom. Love you all XOXO.
Chapter 7- Giving In
Friday October 29^th, 1999 07:22am
Draco sniffed the air in confusion as he awoke in his bed and slowly opened his eyes to see his shirt smoking in front of him. Quickly sitting up straight, he frantically patted at his chest to put out the burning embers while falling out of bed in a panic. Crashing hard onto floor, he ripped off his white t-shirt as fast as he could and threw it off to the side as Theo began knocking at his door.
Scrambling to his feet, Draco threw open the entry way, startling his friend slightly.
“Uh, you okay, mate?” Theo asked confused as he looked down at the blackened mark on Draco’s bare sternum. “Who hexed you?” he questioned curiously while raising a hand to touch the imprint that looked very similar to a tree fern tattoo running up his chest and wrapping slightly around the base of Draco’s neck.
Draco swatted his friends’ hand away and quickly rushed out of his room. He didn’t even bother to put on a new shirt as he began pounding hard on Hermione’s door.
“What’s going on?” Theo inquired as the blonde continued to try and get Hermione to open up, but Draco just ignored him.
‘Open the fucking door already!’
Hermione swiftly opened her door but the anger residing on her face quickly fell when Draco grabbed her wrist and began dragging her out of the room. Without saying a word, he grabbed Theo as well and began shoving both of them into his dorm.
“Oi Malfoy! What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Ron yelled from the bottom of the stairs as he and Harry watched the Slytherin man-handle their best friend.
“Shut-it, Weasel!” Draco replied callously. “The adults need to have a little chat…”
Before Ron could get in another word, Draco stepped into the room and slammed his door closed.
“What the bloody hell is going on?” Theo questioned as he looked to Draco with a mix of anger and worry.
“What happened to you?” Hermione asked intriguingly while taking a step forward to study Draco’s chest. “Is…is this what I think it is? Is this from lightning?”
‘You have no bloody idea how fucking right you are.’
“Lightning? How the hell did you get hit by lightning?” Theo said in surprise.
Draco allowed the Gryffindor girl to scan his torso, knowing only she would be able to help him. He felt a slightly uncomfortable as the book-worm gazed at his bare skin like it was a puzzle she was trying to work out, but he no longer had a say in what happens anymore. His headaches were getting worse each time his day reset and now he was getting postpartum effects from each death. He needed help and he needed it now.
‘Please believe me when I tell you this, Granger…Please?’
“We need to talk” he stated firmly.
“Hell yeah, we do” Theo replied as he too began to walk around Draco while studying the Lichtenberg scar that continued to run around his back. “What the hell happened to you?”
‘Everything…Every damn thing happened to me!’
Draco charmed his room before reluctantly recounting every bit of his tale for an hour straight; awkwardly including and admitting to what he embarrassingly did, knowing it was the only way to get the Golden Girl to believe him. He only left out some parts, like his raging hard on for her and the affects her kisses left on him, before putting on some clothes in front of the flustered girl, and lying on his bed in defeat.
“So wait, just…wait” Hermione began as she held up a hand and turned to sit on the edge of the mattress with a scrunched brow. “You’re telling me, you died numerous times but never actually stay dead?”
“Yes…” Draco answered with a sigh.
“And I caused one of your deaths?”
“That would be correct” he claimed, propping himself up on his elbows.
‘Still not over that…Shite hurt!’
But Hermione’s sudden change of expression to one of sadness and remorse, made Draco instantly feel guilty for getting drunkenly angry with her and releasing said anger on everyone around him.
‘Dammit, why does she have to give me sad eyes? How the hell am I supposed to stay mad at her for murdering me when she’s giving me fucking sad eyes! Fucking hell, this woman is going to be the death of me…literally.’
“Look, its fine Granger. I’m still here so no harm no foul” he continued when her eyes began to water.
“You’re not fine though. Your body is losing the ability to heal itself after each death and you still have no idea how to fix the day to stop it from repeating.”
“Hold on a second” Theo chimed in as he backed off the dresser. “Sorry, I’m still trying to process the fact that you’re a virgin and I’ve been ignorant this whole time…You could’ve had a shag with anyone in this school and still technically stayed a virgin…You really never had sex before?” he asked looking to Draco with narrowed eyes and furrowed brows.
‘Every…damn…time!’
“No, Theo, and I wouldn’t do something like that…just like I wouldn’t ruin Grangers’ potion.” Draco replied with an exasperating sigh.
“Bugger…Anyway,” he shook his head before looking back to Hermione “you believe him? I mean I know I sort of do, but you’re all about cold hard facts and proof. His messed-up chest and morbidly sadistic story isn’t exactly evidence that he’s reliving the same day over and over again.”
“Nott, I have traveled to the past to help save Harry’s Godfather and Buckbeak, no thanks to this git,” Hermione began while pointing a hand at Draco.
“Hey!” Draco retorted in offense.
“Sorry, but it’s true…Anyway, I have seen things over the past eight years I never thought possible. Nothing really surprises me anymore. The fact that he knows things he shouldn’t especially when they haven’t even happened yet, is enough. I’ve read about paradoxes before but I never actually knew anyone who experienced one.”
“So, you’ll help me?” Draco asked almost pleadingly.
“I’ll help you…on two conditions.”
“Let me guess…one of those conditions is to stop trying to kiss you?”
“No…”
‘Wait, what?’
Both Draco and Theo raised a brow with etched eyes staring curiously at the brunette before Theo opened his mouth to speak.
“Uhhh…so you want him to kiss you?” he asked befuddled.
‘Say yes…Please say yes…Salazar this is bad; I’ve finally reached the point of begging in my head! Malfoy’s don’t beg, Draco! Get your shite together!’
“I-I don’t know. I don’t remember kissing him so I can’t really say if I want him to again or not” Hermione claimed while looking down at her hands in embarrassment.
‘Come on! Stop making me feel for you!’
“What are your conditions, Granger?” Draco asked, sensing her unease.
“Oh, um, well the first would be to stop killing my friends.”
‘I knew it. Always standing up for her friends…Lucky gits’
“It was only Weasley and it was just that one time!” he rebutted quickly. “It’s not like he didn’t deserve it anyway. Bloke failed at punching me three times!”
“Malfoy, if you murder one of them and we somehow figure out how to stop the day from resetting, then you could permanently kill my friends!”
‘Okay, she has a point there.’
“Alright, I won’t kill them…But if Weasley lays a hand on me again I swear to Merlin, I will deck his arse!”
“That’s fair, I guess” she replied with a shrugged.
‘Damn right it’s fair!’
“So, what is the second condition, Granger?” Theo asked while crossing his arms and leaning back against the dresser again.
Hermione blushed slightly as she turned her gaze away from the boys; however, Draco could tell that it had something to do with him…she was just too embarrassed to say it in front of Theo.
“Just ask me Granger. Theo won’t judge you, will you mate?”
“Oh, hell no! I have no room to judge anyone with the shite I’m dealing with. I won’t say anything, I promise…Though I might laugh; just a fair warning. Don’t take it personal, I laugh at everyone.”
Hermione bit her lower lip nervously causing Draco’s breath to catch and his groin to start hardening. He quickly sat up and grabbed a pillow to place on his lap as he tried to pretend that nothing had happened. He cleared his throat as he looked away from her and tried his best to think about something else.
‘She’s killing me! Why of all the things she could do, biting her fucking lip is a turn on? Couldn’t be something else, literally anything fucking else?’
“I can leave if you’re that uncomfortable” Theo suggested pleasantly.
‘Don’t leave me alone with her! Are you mad?’
“No” Hermione quickly replied as she scooted back on the bed and crossed her legs under her. “It’s alright, it’s just…it’s stupid is all. I don’t really know how to ask.”
“Do you want him to kiss you?” Theo inquired with a smirk. “Cause I’m sure the raging hard on he has right now will definitely make him cream his pants if he does.”
“WHAT?” Draco shouted in surprise making Hermione glance over at him with a curious expression before unsubtly looking down at the feathered pillow in his lap.
‘Oh…my Gods! I take it back! Leave!’
“Please, you can’t hide it” Theo continued with a chuckle. “I saw it start to bake the minute she bit her lip.”
“Theo!” Draco angrily began through clenched teeth. “Shut-the fuck-up!”
“Why? She won’t remember this tomorrow anyway and you already said you stood naked in front of her, so what’s the big deal…besides your dick right now?” he blissfully laughed.
‘I’m going to kill you…I am going to fucking kill you’
“Oh, God, okay” Hermione interrupted as she quickly stood up and backed away from the bed. “I was just going to ask you to take me to the dance. I wasn’t expecting…all this” she chortled while pointing a finger back and forth between the Slytherin’s.
“But it got you to say the second condition” Theo smiled proudly. “You’re welcome…Now, if you can manage to contain little Malfoy for a few hours, Draco, we can head down to the library and try to figure something out before the exam starts.”
“I hate you!” Draco whispered, gritting his teeth in resentment.
“I love you too” Theo teased with a brilliant smile as he blew him a soft kiss off the tip of his fingers.
Hermione crossed her arms and watched the boys silently bicker as she bit her lip in amusement. But Theo caught the act and stopped arguing with Draco long enough to bit his own lip while trying to hold back a laugh.
“Don’t let Draco see that, Granger” he laughed into his hand. “You might get an insider’s look on what to expect when you two finally get together.
‘He is so fucking dead.’
Draco scrambled off the bed and punched Theo in the arm hard as Hermione’s face fell to shock and she quickly scurried to get out the door.
“You’re an arsehole!” Draco said as he smacked his friend upside the head.
Theo rubbed the back of his head with a pout before looking up to the blonde with displeasure radiating his face.
“Rude”
“What the fuck are you trying to do? That was embarrassing, Theo!”
“Yeah, well it got her to ask you to the dance, didn’t it?
“I never make it to the Ball, you daft prat! Didn’t you listen to a word I said?”
“I was listening…I just chose to ignore it. I was too busy thinking about how much you’re missing out by still being a virgin and that Granger is the perfect girl for you, but you’re too fucking scared to just admit you want her!”
“That doesn’t mean you have to tell her about…that!”
“What? You’re boner? She didn’t seem to care…she seemed flattered in fact. Though you didn’t notice because you were too busy yelling at me to see that she really freaking likes you. Why else would she ask you to take her to the Ball?”
“Because no one asked her…She told me before I kissed her the first time” Draco replied, slightly calmer.
“Draco, come on mate! She is a war heroine for Merlin’s sake, she could have anyone in this school take her, but she went alone. She went alone because she wanted to go with you, but apparently with everything you told us, you never wanted to go.”
“I-”
“Didn’t think about that?” Theo scoffed “Yeah, you seem to be doing that a lot lately.”
‘Dammit!’
Theo shook his head before walking out of the room, making Draco throw his head back in frustration before following his best friend out the door to meet Hermione waiting for them outside of the portrait entrance.
As the trio made their way to the library, Draco suddenly remembered the bludger incident and grabbed both Theo and Hermione’s arms to stop them from going any further while beads of sweat protruded from his forehead.
“What the- What’s wrong?” Hermione asked puzzled. “Malfoy?” she snapped her fingers in front of his face trying to get his attention.
“There’s bludgers flying around here” he gulped. “Last time I came here I got hit in the face with one. It killed me before I even knew it was there.”
“I don’t see any around, mate” Theo answered while he looked over the corridor cautiously.
“Why would Bludgers be roaming the halls?” Hermione asked as she brought out her wand from her messy bun.
“Same reason a Snitch is flying around down by the Great hall,” Draco spoke as he finally put two and two together “two Slytherin’s released them as a prank.”
“How do you know that?” Theo questioned as he too brought out his wand and scanned the hall carefully.
“Because I heard them on my seventh day in the dungeons when I tried and failed to get food from the kitchens…I didn’t think anything of it until now and I didn’t recognize them, but I think they were maybe third or fourth years.”
“Would you remember who they were, if you saw them again?” Hermione inquired while lowering her wand slightly.
“They caused one of my deaths, Granger. I can definitely identify them.”
“Okay, well, there aren’t any Bludgers here so maybe they were taken care of by a professor or a Prefect already” she claimed tucking the vine-wood back into her hair. “When did you visit the library last time?”
“Early…Maybe a few minutes after I woke up; they said something about seeing McGonagall’s face when she showed up” he replied while taking deep breaths to calm his nerves.
“Alright, so then they’re already taken care of. It’s been well over an hour since then” Theo stated as he pocketed his wand.
“Yeah, but one of the iron balls destroyed the library. We won’t be able to research anything.”
“Draco, the library is fine…Look” the brunette wizard claimed while pointing to the library doors. “Maybe because you weren’t here for the Bludger to attack, the ball never went into the room?”
“It’s possible” Hermione added “I mean if you think about it, all the places you died or got knocked out at, you weren’t there on the first day.”
“So?” Draco replied as he turned his gaze to the Gryffindor.
“So…That means you weren’t supposed to be there. All that stuff still happens, but because you interfered by being there when you were supposed to be somewhere else, it caused the timeline to shift.”
‘That…actually makes sense.’
“Okay, but I wasn’t here the first day either.”
“True, but you also didn’t have me with you. You only had Nott what, like twice…excluding the times I knocked you out, which if you would have told me sooner, wouldn’t have happened.”
“Ego large enough for you, Granger? Geez” Draco retorted with an eye roll.
“Mate, she’s right though” Theo cut in. “If you would have brought her in on the third day instead of all the guys, you probably would have figured this all out sooner.”
“But I wouldn’t have gained the Intel that I did, so…”
“Yet, you could have still found all that stuff out without-”
“Alright,” Hermione interrupted with a raised hand “can you both stop bickering long enough to try and figure this mess out? We need to go to the Restricted Section and I would rather us not get caught because you two won’t shut-it.”
“Granger, you’re Head Girl of our dorm” Theo stated. “You’re allowed access to that part of the library.”
“But you two dolts aren’t; and I would have to file a note to Professor McGonagall asking to give you permission to enter. Seeing as we are on a strict time limit here, I don’t really have time to do all of that. So, shut-up and take this!”
Hermione pulled a strange cloak out of the top of her shirt and handed it over to Theo before readjusting her bra…making Draco’s heart race as he stared wide eyed at the petite witch.
‘Kill me now…Just fucking kill me now and let it be permanent so I can stop wanting to snog the every-loving piss out of her!’
“Is this what I think it is?” Theo asked excitedly, bringing Draco back to reality before Hermione noticed he was staring at her plump, perfect hand grabbing sized breasts.
‘Merlin’s fucking saggy balls! Stop, Draco!’
“It’s Harry’s so don’t ruin it, alright? He’ll kill me if he knew I snitched it from his room before we left, so I have to put it back before he notices it’s missing in about an hour.”
“So, it is the infamous Invisibility Cloak!” Theo exclaimed with a broad smile. “I always wanted to be able to hold it and now here I am! This…this is a glorious moment…that I won’t even remember tomorrow” he frowned.
“If we can’t fix this mess today, then Malfoy here will remind me to let you hold it” Hermione softly smiled.
“Really?” the Slytherin pipped up.
“Yeah, Theo…I’ll be sure you get to hold it again.” Draco claimed with a shake of his head; amused at his friends’ reaction to holding one-third of the Deathly Hallows.
Theo folded in his lips as he grinned from ear to ear before unraveling the cloak and wrapping it around his body.
“Holy mother of Salazar, this is awesome!”
Hermione and Draco chuckled before Draco got under the invisible blanket and followed the Gryffindor Princess into the library. She spoke with the librarian, Irma Prince, who Draco still thought looked like an underfed vulture with her ‘resting bitch face’, before advancing towards the Restricted Section. Once the coast was clear, Draco ducked out from under the cloak while Theo only poked his head out.
“I…am never taking this off!” he claimed in a cheerful whisper while twirling his invisible body back and forth.
Hermione rolled her eyes before beginning to look for a specific title upon the dusty old shelves. Most of the books where chained as they were too dangerous for anyone, other than a professor, to open so Draco let the bookworm do her thing and took a seat at an empty disheveled table near the back of the aisle.
After a few minutes, Hermione came over to the table where Theo was still playing with the cloak and dropped three large tomes down.
“What the Centaur in the forest, are those! They’re huge!” Theo exclaimed a little too loudly as he took the Invisibly Cloak off his shoulders. “Sort of like Draco’s Brontosaurus earlier” he laughed to himself as Draco gave him a dirty look and Hermione just rolled her eyes with a huff.
‘If he brings my dick up one more time, I am going to choke him to death.’
“If you’re not going to help, Nott, then go down to breakfast and let us work in peace” Hermione stated in annoyance.
‘THANK YOU!’
“I wanna help!” the shaggy-haired wizard claimed quickly. “There is just no way I can read all of…that! Have you seen my grades, Granger? I am terrible at studying.”
‘It’s true.’
“Your grades aren’t that terrible, Nott…but if you really want to help…I might have an idea.”
“As long as it doesn’t involve me reading, I am all for it.”
“I-I don’t really think you’re going to like it” Hermione declared wearily.
“Bring-it-on” Theo smirked. “It’s hard to scare me off…like Draco’s dick!”
“Enough!” Draco ordered as he hit Theo in the arm with the back of his hand.
“Alright, geez; it was just a joke…Sorry.”
“Moving on,” Hermione began sternly while removing her wand from her hair once more and put up a silencing charm “how good are you at obtaining classified information?”
‘Oh no’
“I’m excellent at it, if I do say so myself”
‘Please no…Don’t leave me alone with her!’
“How would you like to go on a secret mission then?” Hermione mischievously smiled. “You can return Harrys’ cloak for me in the process.
‘No! Salazar, NO!’
Theo leaned his elbows onto the table with his lip slowly turning up into an evil grin as he rested his chin on his fists.
“Now, you’re speaking my language, Granger”
‘For the love of all things Slytherin…THEO!’ Draco shouted, pushing his thoughts into his friends mind; a feat he rarely ever did knowing how much Theo hated when he did so ‘Stop! I can’t be alone with her again!’
‘Get out of my head, Draco! I’m trying to listen to the plan your future girlfriend is concocting…Get it, con-cock-ting! Ha-ha-ha-ha…uhhhhh. That was a good one.’ Theo thought as he began to chuckle in his chair, making Hermione stop her suggested scheme, and glare at the boys perplexedly.
‘Enough of the games, mate, please; I can’t do this. I don’t know how to act around her!’
“Draco, just be yourself…Wait…Don’t do that, you’ll scare her off.’
“Are you guys even listening to me?” Hermione asked while leaning on to the table, but when neither of the Slytherin’s responded, she knew they were tuning her out.
‘I’m serious, Theo. I can’t…I-I can’t breathe when I see her, let alone be by myself with her. I-I’m afraid I might do something stupid like I’ve been doing all week…day…all day, repeatedly.’
‘All I keep hearing are the words, “I can’t”. How about instead of being a selfish git worrying about what you might or might not do, you just act on your feelings?’
“Hello” Hermione stated while waving a hand in front of the boys who were looking down and completely ignoring her.
‘I’m scared to let her in. Don’t you get it? I am openly admitting to being afraid? Do you even know how hard that is for me to admit?’
‘I do…So be afraid… Theo thought as he slowly looked up from the table and directly into Draco’s eyes ‘and then do it anyway.’ he finished as he pushed Draco out of his head and closed his off his mind.
“What does that even mean?” Draco said aloud when he couldn’t get back into Theo’s head.
“Were you two just having a conversation without me?” Hermione angrily demanded. “If you don’t want my help then just say it now, and I will happily go meet my friends for breakfast while I figure out my-damn-self who is out to get me!”
“No!” Theo announced while turning his gaze quickly to her. “It was nothing…Just…I’m sorry. What’s your plan…I’m all ears.”
Hermione pressed her lips together in annoyance as she furrowed her brows and studied the brunette before her, contemplating on if he was actually going to listen this time. All the while Draco crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair, clearly unhappy at the turn of events.
“I’m listening, Granger. I promise” Theo added when the bookworm didn’t speak for a moment.
“Okay” she sighed, finally giving in. “Well, I was thinking…”
XX
About ten minutes later, Hermione finished writing names on a small scroll of parchment before sliding it over to Theo who looked at it curiously.
“So, just to confirm…You want me to break into each of these rooms and see if I can find any incriminating evidence that will prove who is responsible for tampering with your potion?” Theo questioned as he continued to look the list over. “Cornwell, Stoll, Blaise, Pansy, Boot, aaand…Longbottom, isn’t he your friend? And aren’t Stoll and Cornwell Hufflepuff’s? They don’t seem like the type to mess with someone’s potion. Blaise and Pansy sure wouldn’t, that would fuck with their image and when it comes to those two, ‘image' is everything.”
“Yes, but we can’t leave any stone unturned. Everyone is a suspicious until proven innocent and seeing as Malfoy already crossed Ron and Lavender off the list, those are the remaining suspects.”
“What about Potter or girl Weasley…or the rest of the seventh-years in that class?” Theo asked, looking up from the parchment in his hand.
“Potter isn’t even a thought” Draco claimed, finally speaking after his little argument with Theo earlier. “Just trust me. He defended me when Weasley and Brown were locked up and Weaslette is Grangers’ female best friend. The last thing she would want to do is piss off Hermione. If anything, she would hex the person responsible with her famous Bat-boggy hex. That is not a spell you want to be on the receiving end of, I promise you that. And as for the random seventh-years…I’ve got nothing. We’ll just assume they are not responsible unless everyone else on that list is crossed off.”
“Ohh-kay” Hermione blinked in confusion as she looked at Draco with a raised brow. ‘Fuck, I did it again. I said her damn first name!’ “Uh well, Nott, you have about an hour and a half to sneak into each room before the exam starts. Problem is…most of the eighth-years will be in the common room right about now.”
“How am I supposed to break in then? Everyone will obviously see me if I return the cloak! And even if I didn’t return the thing and used it instead, everyone will see me opening doors!”
“Not if you’re small” Hermione ticked with a smirk “and seeing as you haven’t been able to figure out your animagus form yet, which would take too long anyway, plus it’s illegal without a license…”
“You want to transfigure me, don’t you?” Theo asked worryingly. “Please, whatever you do, don’t make me a ferret! I’m still traumatized from when Draco was turned into one and put down Goyles’ pants fourth year by fake Professor Moody! Shite haunts my dreams…” he shuddered.
“Haunts your dreams?” Draco cut in. “How do you think I feel?”
“Well at least you’re not repeating that day over and over again…I feel for you” Theo chortled while holding a hand to his chest.
“Alright” Hermione interrupted with a shake of her head “we won’t do a ferret…I think I might have a better animal in mind anyway.”
Hermione pointed her vine wood wand at Theo’s face before uttering the incantation needed to transform the Slytherin. Theo’s body slowly started to shift in odd directions as his body shrunk before their eyes. Once the transfiguration was complete, Draco leaned over and picked up his best friend off the chair to set him onto the table.
“Well, if anyone does see you,” he began with a chuckle “you might want to prepare yourself to being locked in a cage as a pet for the rest of your life” he laughed while poking Theo’s round chipmunk belly with his index finger. “All the ladies are going to swoon over you. I have to admit though you are actually quite cute in this form. Maybe we should keep you like this forever.”
Chipmunk Theo apparently wasn’t happy about the animal Hermione had picked for him or the fact Draco and Hermione where giggling at him like a couple of school girls, and quickly bit Draco’s finger in anger while adorably scowling afterwards.
“Bloody hell, Theo!” Draco stated in shock and displeasure as he pulled his hand back quickly. “Why you little-
“Malfoy!” Hermione jumped in and quickly picked Theo up to stop Draco from attacking his rodent friend. “He’s a baby chipmunk right now! You can’t just go attacking him, you could really hurt him in this form.”
“You know what?” he claimed backing up and holding his hands in the air. “I’m not even mad. He’s too lovable looking to get mad at right now and I will definitely be holding this over his head for years to come.”
Theo stuck his little tongue out at Draco before cuddling up to Hermione’s left thumb just to spite his blonde friend as the curly haired witch lightly pet his head with a smile. Draco pressed his tongue against his cheek in annoyance as he glared at the chipmunk with distaste.
“If you two are done with this extremely awkward petting session, can we move this along? We don’t exactly have a lot of time.”
“Right” Hermione giggled in embarrassment as she stopped scratching Theo’s belly and set him gently back onto the table.
Hermione quickly folded up the feather light cloak before tying it around Theo’s furry belly and put him on the floor. He scampered off out of the library as Hermione sat down and began looking at Draco in a serious manner.
“Okay, so…” she began as Draco took his seat and the pair started opening two of the books to begin their research “let’s start from the beginning. I need you to remember specifically what you said when I interrupted you during class. I also need to you fully recite the list of ingredients used to make the potion and exactly what your wish was.”
“Granger, I already deduced that the ingredients were not the problem. It was the incantation but I can’t really recall what I said. As for the wish…I don’t know which one the potion took into effect. Well I know it wasn’t the Manor but the other two…”
“What was your wish Malfoy? I need to know everything if I am going to be able to help you.”
Draco ran his tongue across the inside of his bottom lip as he strongly considered not revealing his secret to the girl he was beginning to adore more than anything. He had finally come to the conclusion though, that no matter what he did or said, the Golden girl in front of him would still like him in the end. He was merely embarrassed that he had to admit what partially got him into this mess in the first place.
“You” he mumbled under his breath.
“Pardon?” she asked leaning an ear slightly closer to hear him better.
“You” he repeated a little louder. “I first wished to fix your potion before wishing to fix everything…for you.”
Hermione sucked in a deep breath before biting the tip of her tongue with her folded in lips.
“Oh…Okay well…Uh, I think we can figure that out. I don’t really know what it is that you can fix for me but I’m sure we can think of something.”
As the Golden girl continued to talk and look through the book in front of her, a flashback burst to the forefront of Draco’s mind causing him to stare unseeingly in front of him.
“I didn’t have a date…” Hermione confessed while looking down at her hands. “First Lavender insults me, which normally I would brush off, but for some odd reason today of all days, it really bothered me. Then Ginny tells me this metal news that I am still trying to process, Neville is having girl problems, and Ron…well Ron always has something going on, and then my potion gets ruined,” She turned her head to him “which I know you didn’t do and it’s unfair that you were forbidden from attending the Ball.”
“Malfoy? Are you okay?” Hermione asked as she stopped looking through the book and gazed at him with worry.
“You already told me what to fix…” he uttered in a whisper.
“What?
“The night I first kissed you” he continued, raising his stormy ocean grey eyes up to hers. “That night you told me why you left the Ball early…You already told me what needs to be fixed.”
“Oh-kay…what did I say?”
“I have to help your friends on top of fixing your potion!” he exclaimed standing up excitingly, startling Hermione for a moment before his face fell, and he slowly sat back down. “Fuck! I have to help your friends.”
‘Story of my life’
“That’s not such a bad thing” she replied softly.
“It is when you’re me…I know how to help Weasley, which is going to be tricky, and Weaslette…but how am I supposed to help Longbottom? You only said he had girl problems.”
‘Which just so happens to be something I’m good at fixing’
“I told you that?” she asked leaning against the table in surprise.
“You would be surprised at what people have voluntarily told me these last few repeated days. So what girl is Longbottom having trouble with?”
“I-I don’t really know actually” she admitted while sitting back in her seat. “He only said he’s having girl problems and he just briefly told me yesterday…Oh! Harry would know! Neville tells him everything!”
“Perfect…So, here’s how this is gonna go...I help Potter and his girl first and get Potter to tell me how to help Longbottom…then I’ll help Longbottom and he will tell me how to help Weasley. Then all I need to do is figure out how to get him to let me help before trying to find a way to stop your exam from getting destroyed.”
“But you said you already knew how to help Ron” she questioned confused.
“I do know how, but I need a little more information first before going through with my plan. It just so happens, that Longbottom has the specific piece of the puzzle that I’m missing. However, he won’t just come out and tell me, so I’ll have to gain his trust first. Weasley is really my only hurdle but if I can get the information that I need, it shouldn’t be too hard to not only help him…but Theo as well.”
“I wish I could help you there, but Ron is a tough biscuit to crack when it comes to you.”
“I figured that one out pretty much myself.”
“Okay, so you’ll start with Harry and Ginny, who will tell you how to help Neville, who will then tell you how to help Ron which…will also help you help Nott?”
“Yes”
“Great, let’s move on then to the incantations before searching for side effects, dangers, etcetera.”
“Desiderio tuo revelare to activate the potion and…I think Repetit Forma to cancel it. That’s the one you cut me off on.”
“Repetit Forma…Repetit for, no,” she shook her head as she continued to think “Repetit…Rep-e-ti- Oh my God!”
“What?” Draco questioned as he sat up right in his chair and looked at Hermione with hopefulness.
“Draco, you daft nitwit!” she claimed as she stood up, reached across the table, and smacked him on top of the head with a small roll of parchment.
“Ow! What the hell was that for?” he asked in shock while holding the top of his head with his hand.
‘Wait...Did she just call me Draco?’
“You said repeat…on a wishing potion, causing your day to repeat itself until you fulfill the wish, you imbecile!” she whacked him over the head again. “You can’t do anything to get out of it until you complete the wish entirely!”
“Can you stop hitting me? Merlin, do you really need to berate me for something that wasn’t even my fault? You’re the one who cut me off to try and blame me for ruining your damn potion in the first place!”
“Well, I wouldn’t have had to blame you if you wouldn’t have argued with me like you said you did!”
“I can’t help that it was funny that you spilled your Nightshade…Wait a second…you spilled your Nightshade” Draco stated as the cogs in his mind began to turn.
‘Holy mother of Salazar!’
“So?”
“Granger, each time you knock your elbow into that ingredient, you bend down to clean it up. And I never looked at you or in your direction when you did so.”
“You think…Godric, it makes sense” she began as she sat down and stared unseeingly at the table. “Whoever added the Fluxweed must have somehow snuck it into my potion when I bent down.”
Hermione quickly stood back up and began searching frantically through the large book in front of her as Draco rested a hand on the table, studying her; completely mesmerized by her incense focus ability. He always thought she was pretty for a muggle-born, especially when she was nose deep in a book, but something about the way she was helping him, made Draco look at her completely different. She wasn’t just the typical pretty bookworm he had grown up with anymore or even the in your face know-it-all he had tormented for years…she was beautiful…and he now found himself wanting to tell her just how much he liked her…every single day.
‘So be afraid…and then do it anyway…Fucking Theo, man I love that prat sometimes.’
“I want to take you out” he stated firmly as he stared intently at the girl researching page after page for a specific passage.
“What?” she questioned curiously as she slowly raised her chocolate brown eyes to his. “Like to the dance? You’ll take me?” she smiled softly.
“If I ever get out of this hellish nightmare…yes, I’ll take you…but that’s not what I meant.”
“Oh…what did you mean then?”
Draco lowered his eyes as he tapped his fingers on the table, thinking strongly about his next words, before leaning in and gazing up at her.
“Granger, you’re beautiful…do you know that?”
“I-uh-um-I mean uh…t-thank you” she stuttered with a small smile on her lips as her cheeks flushed crimson.
“Don’t thank me, just know that it’s true” he leaned back and crossed his arms. “And if you forget tomorrow, or even the next day, or the day after that, I will remind you each and every time until you remember. But I don’t want to stop once you do. I want to take you out…on a date…a real date, wherever you want to go.”
“I…I-I don’t know what to say” she claimed, staring at him in shock.
“Say yes, Hermione. I promise you, you won’t regret it.”
Hermione gazed into Draco’s eyes as her breath caught and her mouth opened and closed repeatedly. It felt like forever to Draco as he waited nervously for an answer, but it was only seconds until she finally spoke.
“O-okay…”
“Okay?”
“Yes…I’ll go on a date with you” she smiled shyly before tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear while biting down on her lower lip.
“Stop it” Draco spoke in deliberation as his face froze in fear.
“Sorry” Hermione replied quickly as she released her lip and looked back down at the book like nothing had happened, however a small contented smile continued to play on her lips making Draco feel like Christmas had come early.
Meanwhile, across the schools’ halls, Theo was in shambles as his trek back to the eighth-year common room was filled with adventures he never thought he would ever have to endure in his life. He was relatively close to getting stepped on numerous times, almost seen by the Herbology Professor, Sprout, and was kicked by some Ravenclaw who mistook him for a rabid squirrel; which in itself was rather ironic.
The worst part however, was getting man-handled or in his case, chipmunk-handled, by some first year Hufflepuff wanting to remove the cloak tied to him, and keep him as a pet she would later name Mr. Pudgy. Luckily his little teeth were able to nip her hand hard enough for the girl to drop him and he immediately scampered off before she found him again.
Theo as a human was rather skinny, which he was proud of, considering how much he ate on a daily bases, but Theo as a chipmunk for some odd reason, was a chubby looking thing that made it very difficult to squeeze his little butt underneath doors.
He surprisingly got lucky enough however, that Pansy and Blaise were entering the common room when he arrived and he didn’t have to wait for someone to let him in. It didn’t take him long to sneak around and put Harrys’ cloak back into his room, after nibbling the crap out of the string Hermione had tied to him, and search the dorms of the listed suspects. He found all sorts of juicy details about the people he shared a living space with, but nothing prepared him for the shock of his life when he decided to waste the extra time he had spying on Lavender Brown.
Draco had told Theo what they had done to lock the Gryffindor and her boyfriend in her room, but he wanted to see for himself what the wench did when no one was looking. All the while he hoped he could find some dirt on her to tell Draco later.
He waited patiently by Draco’s bedroom for his moment to sneak in, after finishing his search in Terry Boots’ dorm, when he saw Ron and Lavender snogging disgustingly on the couch below.
‘Oh, gross! That’s my spot! That bastard just so happened to “forget” to mention this vile activity to me! I can never sit there again!...Oh, but it was such a good spot too. Freaking vermin; always ruining a good thing!”
Theo shook his little animal head in revulsion and was about to run across the hall to Lavender’s room when the couple stood up from the couch and began walking up the stairs. He attempted to make himself even smaller so he wouldn’t be seen, and watched carefully as the duo made their way into her quarters.
Quickly scurrying as fast as his four little legs could go, Theo made it to his destination and began to wedge himself under her door. Half way through however, his butt got stuck and he had to push his hind legs against the ground as he wiggled hard before finally making it through.
‘Merlin’s testicles, I need to exercise more!’
Immediately after entering, he ran under her queen-size bed in the center of the room, and listened to the couple above him; praying they wouldn’t start having sex with him there, otherwise his little tummy wouldn’t be able to keep the snacks he had chewed through in Blaise’s room, down.
Whatever they were talking about though, seemed completely uninteresting to Theo, so he decided to instead snoop at the random objects under the mattress. There wasn’t much to find unfortunately, just some old candy wrappers he assumed were from Ron, and a large wooden box; well at least to a chipmunk it was large. Curious, Theo reached his tiny arms up and jumped, grabbing the edge of the top of the box, and began pulling himself painfully up as his little feet scrapped against the wood in assistance.
‘At least I am getting a work out in…Granger better scratch my fucking belly again after this!’
He peered over the side as he held himself up, but quickly let go of the edge when he discovered the box was filled with sex toys, he would have given anything to have rather not seen.
“OH GODS! MY BABY EYES! WHY? OH, SALAZAR WHY? EWE, EWE, EWE, I TOUCHED THE BOX, I TOUCHED IT! I HAVE TO BURN MY WITTLE PAWS NOW! MERLIN’S BEARD, WHY ME?” he screamed as he looked at his hands with wide eyes.
Fortunately, his yelling only came out as tiny squeaks that the couple didn’t seem to hear over their conversation, and he released a sigh of relief. However, Ron suddenly walked to the door after telling Lavender he would be right back, so Theo ran to the edge of the bed and watched the harpy through the long mirror in front of her. She waited until the door clicked closed before reaching under her pillow into a charmed pocket and pulled out a black and white moving photo. From the position under the bed, Theo couldn’t see what the photo was, but she began kissing the image and caressing the outline of whoever was in it, affectionately.
Disgusted by the action, Theo was about to leave when Ron began opening the door again, causing Lavender to drop the unframed picture to the ground. She swiftly kicked it under her bed, almost hitting Theo in the face before welcoming her boyfriend back.
Inquisitiveness filled Theo’s little brain, so he slowly crawled to the face down picture and flipped it over with his nose. Yet the person in the photo was not someone he ever thought he would see and shock and confusion made him freeze in place with his mouth hung wide open.
‘Oh-my-fairy dust sprinkled over a rainbow bridge in July! It’s Draco! She was kissing a picture of Draco fucking Malfoy!’
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